The Coolest Command-Line Tool in Windows Vista

re: The Coolest Command-Line Tool in Windows Vista

Radeldudel — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 11:40:52 GMT

Aaah, another RoboCopy fan - I use it a lot to backup my computers to USB HDDs.

Only problem is, sometimes the drive letter of the USB hdd changes - I wonder if there will be a way someday to address a drive using its volume label, would help a lot for external drives.

re: The Coolest Command-Line Tool in Windows Vista

Chris J — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 13:08:00 GMT

Ah - an rsync for Windows. This could be useful!

re: The Coolest Command-Line Tool in Windows Vista

Jeff Atwood — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 10:03:33 GMT

I'm more of a Beyond Compare man, myself. It's the best of both worlds: you can visually compare and merge filesystems as well as individual file contents.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000454.html

re: The Coolest Command-Line Tool in Windows Vista

Valer Bocan — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 08:01:09 GMT

Now I now why Delta Forth .NET had immediately appealed to you :-) If I had written a fancy UI, I bet you wouldn't have noticed the Forth compiler at all.

I must admit I have never tried robocopy although just yesterday I was involved in processing a directory structure with some 14,000 font files. I will definitely give Robocopy a try.

re: The Coolest Command-Line Tool in Windows Vista

Abhas Kumar — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 07:50:58 GMT

Seems like rsync for Windows :)

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re: The Coolest Command-Line Tool in Windows Vista

Aus — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:09:18 GMT

I used robocopy to make mirrors of my docs, my music, my pictures etc.
Be careful of the Vista junctions (eg c:\users\aus\documents\my music -> c:\users\aus\music) otherwise you may get two copies of everything in music, pictures and videos.

I had to use switch /XJ

re: The Coolest Command-Line Tool in Windows Vista

JLH — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:28:00 GMT

It would be good if robocopy supported delta copies, as Rsync does.